The Case for a Global Constitution

NEW YORK – In my book The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics, I was eager to demonstrate how the methods that have emerged from the long and fruitful dialogue between these fields could, with a little help from game theory, be applied to multilateral disputes and multi-jurisdictional conflicts. So, I included a section on the challenge of creating a global constitution. This is an idea with quite a long history.

Mar 28, 2019 Anatole Kaletsky welcomes the extension of the March 29th deadline, because it will be followed by a much longer one.

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The Mueller Bait and Switch

Mar 27, 2019 Elizabeth Drew shows how the Trump administration is using the US special counsel's report to flip the political narrative.

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In the fourteenth century, for example, Italy’s semi-autonomous city-states developed the “statutist doctrine” for resolving the problems that arose with trade and commerce across multiple legal jurisdictions. As Stephen Breyer, an associate justice of........